On 22 May 1916 the 21-year old French Second Lieutenant Alfred Joubaire wrote from Verdun in his dairy : (That last sentence!!!)
"How long is this going to last? Anguish makes me wonder when and how this gigantic, unprecedented struggle will end. There's no resolution in view. I wonder if it won't just finish for lack of men to fight with. It's no longer one nation fighting another. It's two great blocs fighting, two civilisations colliding. The peoples have been touched by the madness of death and destruction. Certainly, humanity has gone mad! It must be mad to do what it's doing. Such slaughter! Such scenes of horror and carnage! I can't find the words to convey them. Hell could not be worse. Men are mad!"
